DilipJ

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by DilipJ 13y ago
surprised to read that he was an early investor of Google. I wonder how that came about?
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by DilipJ 13y ago
that's not really fair to the kid. All of us are born with advantages that others lack. Every person living in America has access to wealth and connections that the average African can only dream of. That shouldn't take away from anyone's
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by DilipJ 14y ago
that's not fair. So if someone is firing a gun at you, you can't fire back with a gun? She bullied those men, costing one of them their job. How else do you respond except by bullying her?
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by DilipJ 14y ago
the best comment yet. there seems to be a growing segment of the population (mostly from the left) that wakes up each day looking for ways to be offended. It seems like such a miserable way to live one's life.
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by DilipJ 15y ago
yeah, there's more to it. The founder Mick Mountz was an HBS guy, he went around for awhile networking with alums to try to get the initial cash investment. Eventually connected with Ajay Agarwal of Bain and landed some seed money.
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by DilipJ 15y ago
so are you saying there is an upper limit to entrepreneurship? I don't think so. I wonder if pg has written anything about this, if there is some point of diminishing returns in the lean startup scene
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by DilipJ 15y ago
you think it's more efficient to ship everyone an entire set of encyclopedias than to keep wikipedia's servers running?
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by DilipJ 15y ago
no, I meant like direct to institutions like pension funds. why would a pension fund give money to Sequoia, and then have them give it to YC? that's an unnecessary management fee the pension funds have to pay
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by DilipJ 15y ago
what I wonder is if/when YC will start to take institutional money....that's what's going to take YC up to upper caliber of VC funds.
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by DilipJ 15y ago
I think Reddit is the greatest thing to come out of the first batch.
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by DilipJ 15y ago
I doubt they were as altruistic as you describe. They probably viewed it as a good business investment. When you consider the elevated prices they pushed these books out at, and the fact that their online website is festered with ads, it's
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by DilipJ 15y ago
I'm sure more carbon is being used in cutting down the trees to turn into paper, and then shipping all of that paper to customers.
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by DilipJ 15y ago
I agree. If you don't have an idea, on what basis are they judging you? what is their filtering process? If you are in your early twenties, what exactly have you accomplished that would separate you from the herd? Nothing, except which scho
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by DilipJ 15y ago
perhaps YC should think of becoming like a business school. Most business schools charge upwards of 100k for two years, and most students borrow that from the federal government. YC could instead "charge" half that amount, teach all the maj
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by DilipJ 15y ago
historically, artists were sponsored by wealthy individuals or institutions to create art. Some of the great European painters of the last few centuries were sponsored by the Catholic Church. If Kickstarter can provide that, what's the prob
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by DilipJ 15y ago
I hate to be "that guy", but you misspelled a certain word three times in your comment. I leave it to you to figure out which one. But I agree with you, in the sense that having a "deadline" is what motivates people to accomplish things. Li
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by DilipJ 15y ago
it really is. I only hope that eventually these credits will be recognized by employers. would they be be willing to hire someone who completes an entire curriculum successfully through MITx over someone who took a similar education at Big
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by DilipJ 15y ago
this fungus could end up contributing to global warming, by taking the carbon that is trapped as plastic on the ground and releasing it eventually into the atmosphere.
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by DilipJ 15y ago
fertility rates are dropping worldwide. At some point in the next 30 years, it is expected to fall below replacement level. Check out this graph comparing fertility rates. China and Iran (!) now have fertility rates below that of the U.S.
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by DilipJ 15y ago
There is a recent Washington Post article that says they are on the verge of breaking thru. I hope they discover some form of life in the lake. It would be amazing to discover what the evolutionary outcomes would be for organisms in such an
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by DilipJ 15y ago
yes exactly. The reason for the escalating healthcare and education costs have to do with the guilds these professions enforce to prevent newcomers from undercutting their wages. If the U.S. were to abolish the AMA and the teacher's union,
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by DilipJ 15y ago
i agree that heirs don't innovate. But copyright laws expire after a certain number of years after the creator's death, at which point they enter the public domain. My question to you is, for material that is not in the public domain, do yo
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by DilipJ 15y ago
Marginal cost shouldn't matter. What matters is consent. If the content creator does not consent for someone to enjoy his/her work without some level of compensation, then it is up to the customer to decide whether or not to purchase the wo
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by DilipJ 15y ago
but they don't value it at zero. if they did they wouldn't pirate it in the first place. pirating takes time (which is valuable) and storage on a hard disk, which has a cost. so any pirater is valuing it on some level. as for the photoshop
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by DilipJ 15y ago
Convenience doesn't justify anything. It is more convenient for me to take a newspaper off my neighbor's lawn than it would be to contact the newspaper company and order a subscription, but that doesn't mean it's ok.
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by DilipJ 15y ago
That's just conspiracy talk. So the same U.S. government that created the internet, and opened it up to the public, is now trying to censor it? I think the politicians are acting honestly and with good intent: their goal is to prevent this
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by DilipJ 15y ago
They are still profitable, but obviously they would more profitable without piracy. That is a point that needs to be considered. No one can just suddenly state that one company has too much profit. Just because media companies are profitabl
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Ask HN: If SOPA isn't the answer, how do you eliminate online piracy?
7 points by DilipJ 15y ago|20 comments
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by DilipJ 15y ago
exactly, plus their once double-digit savings rate dipped into negative territory just recently. As the bulk of their population retires and draws down on their savings, Japan is going to resemble a giant retirement home: serene and crime-f
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by DilipJ 15y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap5XwwEGR7k&feature=relmf... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aHe_9nH_Mc my IQ dropped just looking for these. I can't wait for the end of this company.

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